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Triplite from
Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Triplite
Formula:Mn22+(PO4)F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Triphylite2 photos of Triplite associated with Triphylite at this locality.
Vivianite2 photos of Triplite associated with Vivianite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Triplite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1611352
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1611352:7
GUID (UUID V4):33cc1c57-a0ad-4e0c-ad3e-5fdd194327bb
Nearest other occurrences of Triplite
41.6km (25.8 miles) Beryllonite Locality (Mcallister Occurrence), Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, USA
46.2km (28.7 miles) Mount Rubellite Quarries, Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA
47.0km (29.2 miles) Lord Hill Quarry (Lord Hill Mine), Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine, USA
61.4km (38.2 miles) Groves Quarry (Hole in the Ground Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
61.4km (38.2 miles) Wade Quarry (Androscoggin Tourmaline prospect), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
61.5km (38.2 miles) Pulsifer Quarry & Dionne extension, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
61.6km (38.3 miles) Keith Quarry (Towne Quarry), West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
62.1km (38.6 miles) Maine Feldspar Quarry, East Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
63.5km (39.4 miles) Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
References
Douglass WattsIdentified by Vandall Thomas King: XRD
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in pegmatites. It has been found at the Andrews quarry, Portland, Connecticut; with monazite crystals...New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne Canyon...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near...Burnsville and the Ramsey mine near Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred
Book (volume)
Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Phosphate-rich Pegmatite Formation in Maine The phosphate minerals of Maine are found principally within granitic...granitic pegmatites in Oxford, Androscoggin, and Sagadahoc counties located in the south central portion...Newry complex of pegmatites, the Black Mountain quarries in Rumford, and from miscellaneous occurrences...known primary source. The primary phosphates in Maine are few: fluorapatite, triphylite, lithiophilite...beryllonite, and triplite. Monazite-(Ce) is also a primary pegmatitic phosphate in Maine, but unlike the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GRANITIC PEGMATITES OF THE BRUNSWICK AND OXFORD FIELDS, MAINE: DIFFERENTIAL TRENDS IN F-POOR AND F-RICH...FRANCIS Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A....field and the Central Maine Synclinorium of the Oxford pegmatite field, in Maine, are intruded by numerous...(Nb,Ta)-bearing phases. Generally, the CGM from Maine are hosted by pegmatites characterized by a LCT...observed between the CGM from the Brunswick and Oxford pegmatite fields. Columbite-group minerals from
Report (edition)
BULLETIN 41 Third Edition A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities by Woodrow B. 7KaSVRQ Donald...Vandall T. King Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey Natural Resources Information...OF CONSERVATION 1998 Copyright © 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to four inches in diameter occur in the Palermo quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in...Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite, black tourmaline and triphylite. DICKINSO^ITE, a complex...Branchville and Portland, Connecticut; and at Poland, Maine in lithium pegmatite. F1LLOWITE, with the same composition...dickinsonite occurs sparingly at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut. FAIRFIELDITE, a hydrous phosphate...Fairfield county, Connecticut from which it was named; and also from Poland and Buckfield, Maine; and from
Book (edition)
HANDBOOK for A WEEK WITH MAINE MINERALS by NEIL A. WINTRINGHAM 1_� Cv1,_1'--A� __, SECOND EDITION...a week collecting in the pegme.tite area ot Oxford county, !!Bine, Neil Wintr:lnghal'!l, a pa.st-president...field trial of the hambook during our ''Week with Maine Minerals" furnished additional information end resulted...characterized the evenings spent with members of the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. N. A. W. Mountainside...minerals. The geology of pegmatites, in general, and Maine pegmatites, in particular, is summarized briefly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...iron-rich minerals, such as black tourmaline, biotite, pyrite, magnetite, triplite, and triphyllite. The best...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Figure 5. Aquamarine (8.8 cm long), Black Panther mine, Riverside County, California. Bill Larsen specimen;...8 cm long), Blue Lady mine, Aquanga, San Diego County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF THE PEGMATITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF MAINE INCLUDING FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, MICA, AND GEM DEPOSITS................................... Origin of the Maine pegmatites........................................Larsen............................. Application to Maine pegmatites............................... Eutectics.............................. 1.... Androscoggin County.................................................................................... Maine Feldspar Company quarry and mill................... Turner feldspar
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Robert...Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by...Resources Information, Maine Geologi,cal Survey Robert G Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 2000 Copyright ©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur... 353 by P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline........................................Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 22-25.] Newry, Maine, a pegmatite phosphate...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...vol. 8, no. 6, p. 475.]* The best of San Diego County (by W. Larson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 507-515
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
December 2014 THE FENGJIASHAN WOLLASTONITE MINE, DAYE COUNTY, HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA. B. Ottens, Klingenbrun-Banhof...visited the Fengjiashan Wollastonite mine in Daye County, and a huge number of well-developed minerals have...that have not previously been reported. The Gole quarry, approximately 80 kilometers north of Bancroft...positive identification of kamotoite-(Y) from the Gole quarry was confirmed. In 1999, coauthor Fodi found some...WISCONSIN MINERALS FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and
Book
nests of the birds known as 'melanchoryphi' or 'black caps'." Historical 3 The accounts left by the...(1980) A manual of mineral names. University Press, Oxford Kunz GF (1971) The curious lore of precious stones...evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals...Color-Luster: Dull greenish black; dirty yellow, brownish yellow to brownish black. Subtranslucent to opaque...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in
Report (volume)
-...-.--.-. ----.--.......--.-.---..........---Triplite..--.-------._.-.-----------I---.-...---------...From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...19 LOLLINGITE. From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400...vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific gravity, 6.644 at 20°. Probably...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different
Report (issue)
International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline........ 24 Ferdinand Damaschun • Is There Really Black Tourmaline? ..... 30 Joachim Zang and Warde da Fonseca-Zang...nearly colorless through green, red, blue, brown and black. Acceptance of this variability lay in the fact...through successively stronger colors into blue­ black to black. As the concept of chemical zoning did not
Journal (issue)
.................184 by Paul Brian Moore Newry Maine - A Pegmatite Phosphate Locality... 189 by Vandall...motel rooms usually provide this. For example, the Maine elbaite tourmalines which were thor­ oughly discussed...for the crystal specimen quality of the San Diego County materials - both old and new. As usual, the exhibits...both the county (pro­ vince) and its capital; there are thirty-one separate mines in the county. The mines...another new borate mineral at Borax Lake, Lake County, California, and in 1939 was co-author with W.
Show/Event (guide)
Collecting: A Review of the Powers Farm and Treasure Mountain Locales by Michael Walter 3 6 We warmly welcome...cathodoluminescence to the evolution of the Black Mountain pegmatite by]. Maloney and M. A Wise 2:15 S...2:45 R a r e - e a r t h mineralogy of the Mohave County pegmatites, NW Arizona byS.L. Hanson, A U. Falam;... 4:15 Natromontebrasite from the Meyers quarry, Fremont County, CObyM. I. Jacobson,.1, W Nizamoff,A. U...10:30 T h e Fengjiashan Wollastonite mine, Daye County, Hubei Province, China by B. Opens 10:45 N e w
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Several months later further operations in the quarry exposed another large triphylite crystal that had...composition of triploidite-wolfeite differs from that of triplite only in the presenceof F in place of (OH). These...by Mason and the single-crystal x-ray study of triplite by Heinrich and Wolfe indicates however, that...t h i s particular analysis is due to admixed triplite. It may also be noted that considerableamounts...brownish green to yellowish brown and brownish black. Luster earthy to resinous. Isotropic. Optical and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gahnite, zircon, fluorapatite, native bismuth and triplite are typical minor to accessory minerals in (ii)...beryl and particularly garnet are quite rare. Rare triplite, topaz and native bismuth occur only in the blocky...from the cleavelandite unit. Subhedral to anhedral black crystals of ferrotapiolite, up to 2 cm in size,...in lepidolite, such as the Bennet pegmatite in Maine [Wise et al., 2002; Ta/(Ta+Nb) = 0.04 to 0.93]....element in muscovite (XF ≤ 0.19), topaz (XF ≤ 0.92), triplite (XF ≤ 0.88), tourmaline (XF ≤ 0.83) (Novák et
Report (issue)
_______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________...__________________ _ Maine ________________________________________ _ Androscoggin County ______________________...______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County _______________________ _ LaChance...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...feldspar quarry ________________ _ Black Mountain area ___________________ _ Black Mountain ___________________
Catalog/List
radial groups on limonite ....... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro... AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and...quartz . ALTAITE Lead telluride • Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Brilliant metallic tin white cleavable...sodium and iron Norway Langesundsfjiord , Lustrous black cleavable .............. . GRUNERITE Iron magnesium...alumino-silicate Italy Island of Linosa ----Y:-ustrous black rectangular crystal sections ¼" to ½"$. 25, 5/$1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
J.D. Grice. 1994. Can. Min. 32, 843. Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Na26REE(S...34, 592. As black euhedral to subhedral crystals to 1 mm in a quartz vein from Ankang County, Shaanxi Province...pleochroism; reflectance data are given. Named for the County in which the type locality is situated. Antimonselite...Wang, 1993. Acta Min. Sinica, 13, 7. Occurs as black anhedral grains and as radiating acicular crystals...mine, found in human secretions. Graham County, Arizona, USA. PbA1F3(OH)2. Baumhauerite-2a. A. Pring
Journal (issue)
. Ley The Sm okey Bear quartz claim s, Lincoln County, N ew M exico ...................................be used to establish a precise location within a quarry or general field collecting area. The collector...the points chosen are too often ephemeral (the quarry wall which changes tomorrow or next week), or subject...The experience was never forgotten. I met a nice black bear that day, and learned how not to describe the...the county zoning offices. The accurate property boundaries provide good starting points. Quarry or property
Report (volume)
............................................. Triplite. .1..................... .......................rhombic crystal faces, from Nugget mine, Gilpin County, Colo.-................... II. A, Wedge-shaped...rhombic crystal faces, from Nugget mine, Gilpin County, Colo.............................. IV. A, Hiibnerite...Jack claim, Clark Mountains, near Nipton, Cal.; B, Black hiibnerite from White Oaks, N. Mex... VI. A, Cutand...Clifton mining district, Deep Creek Mountains, Tooele County, Utah; B, Scheelite and gray quartz from Kimberly
Report (issue)
as the pioneer in the geology of west-central Maine, for his expertise on the mineralogy of pegmatites...paleontology: two on the Merrimack Synclinorium in Maine and three on the so-called Pennsylvanian basins...(prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and Maine, respectively, are the subjects of two of the...nickeliferous pyrrhotite deposits of southeastern Maine, gravity studies of the New Hampshire Plutonic Series...polymetamorphism in the Merrimack synclinorium of western Maine ....... Robert H. Moench and Robert E. Zartman
 
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